US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 29 for "Female fiber optic connectors having a rocker latch arm and methods of making the same" (American, Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,727, issued on July 29, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corniing, N.Y.).

"Female fiber optic connectors having a rocker latch arm and methods of making the same" was invented by Stephen Paul Cappannari (Mooresville, N.C.), Michael De Jong (Colleyville, Texas), Ashley Wesley Jones (Denton, Texas), Przemyslaw Andrzej Kukian (Lodz, Poland), Alvin John McDonald (Lenoir, N.C.), Gordon Mueller-Schlomka (Berlin), Hieu Vinh Tran (Charlotte, N.C.) and Shane Chad Woody (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Female fiber optic connectors having a connection port opening for receiving a fiber optic plug and cable...